Bill Burnett

You're going to call sooner.

We're going to come sooner.

You're going to get freer.

You're going to feel more agency in your life.

You're going to realize you actually know how to find your way.

And as you go along it, you can make meaning every day.

We say all the time, all of us contain more aliveness, more personhood, than one lifetime permits you to live out.

There's more than one of you in there.

Hmm.

which is why, by the way, Maslow's idea about self-actualization through fulfillment is dead wrong, because he literally says on the 1943 paper, you achieve that by becoming all that one can be.

No, you can't possibly be all that you can be because you're way bigger than your own lifetime.

Look, I buried plenty of people.

None of them were done.

That's the good news.

I mean, I'm at an age where I know plenty of dead people closely, and they all left with a long to-do list.

That's the good news.

You're far bigger than your lifetime, so the chance of you being bored or running out of things is zero if you're paying attention.

Right.

That's the good news.

So the best way to design your life is to recognize there is no getting you right.